Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The Casio CTK-810 gives you all the tools you need to learn, play, and sound great—at an amazing price!

With 61 full-size, touch sensitive keys and an advanced sound chip, the Casio CTK-810 portable keyboard comes closer to experiencing a real piano than you may have thought possible in this price range. Not only that, but the CTK-810 digital piano even helps you learn to play. Casio's 3-Step Lesson System has helped many players come a long way in their dreams to play the piano keyboard. The system grades your playing, so you can track your progress. Helpful guidance appears on the Casio keyboard's easy-to-read monitor screen.

Over 500 sounds including drum kits, 120 accompaniment rhythms, digital effects, USB computer connectivity and the ability to save songs and settings will keep you inspired, playing and learning more!

Delivers 24-bit/192kHz A/D/A conversion on 2 - 1/4" line inputs, 2 - 1/4" line outputs, and a mic input with preamp. Also has a FireWire port, S/PDIF...Price: $69.99 Ships free on most orders over $99List Price: $219.99

Friday, July 20, 2007

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

RolandPut Roland's most advanced synthesis chip to work in your music! The Roland Fantom-X6 61-Key Sampling Workstation is a music production powerhouse , with 61 full-sized keys, 128 voices, and seamless integration of audio and MIDI. And you get beautiful new ROM waves and sampling, plus realtime time-stretch capability. 128MB wave ROM includes 88 key split piano and more. 32MB sample RAM expandable to 544MB with optional DIMMs. Innovations such as color LCD screen, skip back sampling that retrieves what you just played as a sample, dynamic pad bank with 16 velocity-sensitive pads and aftertouch, as well as V-LINK for triggering and manipulating video clips. Three MFX processors plus dedicated reverb, chorus, and mastering processor. USB port for MIDI, WAV/AIFF file exchange and 4X SRX expansion. PC card slot for backing up samples and data with up to 1GB capacity. Four mono or two stereo line outs, stereo line in, and 24-bit S/PDIF I/O.

YamahaThe Yamaha MOTIF XS6 is a powerhouse 61-key workstation with 355MB of wave ROM to inspire your creativity and performance recording with four intelligent arpeggiators and over 6000 phrases to instantly capture your musical ideas. The integrated sampling sequencer can be expanded up to 1GB of memory for creating complete MIDI/audio productions. Studio style mixing and VCM effects from the Yamaha DM2000 let you master your music right on board. Firewire and Ethernet computer connectivity and a special Yamaha version of Steinberg software- Cubase AI expand your possibilities. With the large color LCD and 8 knobs and sliders for hands on control, making great sounding music has never been easier.

High-Quality Sounds to Spark CreativityThe MOTIF XS keyboard provides an exceptionally broad selections of realistic sounds to spark your creativity thanks to a massive 355MB of high-quality onboard waveforms and samples. A single voice can have up to eight separate sound elements, enabling composite sounds of remarkable complexity and nuance. Among the standout voices is a resonant, meticulously recorded concert grand piano sound that is practically worth the price of admission by itself. New acoustic piano, electric piano and orchestral samples - not to mention the richly textured and distinctly electronic synthesizer waves - give you the sonic tools to fully realize virtually any style of music and any instrumentation.

The Expanded Articulation (XA) tone generation system allows the eight available elements to more effectively recreate realistic sounds and natural performance techniques such as legato, staccato and key release sounds. The elements are common to acoustic instruments but have always been difficult to realize on electronic keyboards. XA also allows you to assign elements to on/off panel switches and change sounds within a voice in real time.

Intuitive InterfaceDespite all of the advanced technology and wealth of features packed tightly into the instrument, the MOTIF XS is exceptionally intuitive and easy-to-use. It gives you a large, full-dot color LCD that lets you see multiple parameters at a glance and has clear, high-resolution graphics with virtual sliders, knobs and more.

The main panel on the MOTIF XS provides an amazing level of control and flexibility. Eight knobs and eight sliders let you instantly tweak a variety of parameters and effects as you play. The eight knobs are especially versatile, letting you use the knobs to independently control eight different parameters (out of 24 selectable parameters,) or use them to control a certain effect setting for up to eight different parts. The knobs can also be used to change the rhythmic feel and other settings of arpeggios and patterns while they play back. Two assignable function buttons give you added control over the sound of the Expanded Articulation Voices, letting you change sounds within a voice in real time.

Other convenient operation features include the improved category search function, which is now organized with dual categories that help you find the voice you want. Calling up the guitar category for instance gives you acces to the dual sub-categories such as: Acoustic, Electric Clean and Electric Distortion. The mega arpeggio voices also have their own dual category for easy selection of those unique voices.

Computer and Software IntegrationA full-featured music production synthesizer in every way, the MOTIF XS6 digital piano comes equipped with a variety of connectors and interfaces for virtually any application and any studio environment. This includes assignable outputs, A/D inputs, S/PDIF digital output, MIDI, ethernet, and mLAN. The comprehensive set of connectors makes interfacing with computers and your favorite software exceptionally easy.

The Yamaha MOTIF XS is designed to work seamlessly and transparently in your computer-based environment. The remote control mode lets you control your DAW software right from the panel of the MOTIF XS. For example, starting and stopping playback/recording can be done with the special transport buttons and changing track levels and parameters is a cinch with the sliders and knobs.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

We've cut prices an additional 10% on thousands of Clearance Center items just in time for hot summer fun! You'll find deals in every category on gear with minor cosmetic flaws, all guaranteed to work perfectly. Shop now for the best selection and check back often as we constantly add new items.